mplayer one last time :(

[Monah Baki]

mplayer version 0.90.0.110, and mplayerplug-in version 0.71, updated the ports 2 days ago.

Thank you. 


On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:35:26 -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote
> [ corrected top-posting ]
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:25:52 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote
> > > In the last episode (Sep 05), Monah Baki said:
> > > > Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another
> > > > OS if freebsd can do the job.
> > > >
> > > > Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1:
> > > >
> > > > multimedia/openquicktime
> > > > multimedia/mplayer
> > > > www/mplayer-plugin
> > > > www/mozilla (1.4)
> > > > www/mplayer-fonts
> > > >
> > > > Still can't get mplayer working. I have all the required ports
> > > > installed based on what the freebsd.com/ports website said, I can't
> > > > think of anything else, I'm completely lost here.
> > >
> > > "Can't get mplayer working" meaning what?  Got an error message?
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Dan Nelson
> > > dnelson at allantgroup.com
> 
> > When I choose a trailer I get the following error message on my xterm:
> >
> > To get best performance recompile mplayer
> with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
> > Reading config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf: no such file or
> directory
> > Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
> > reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf:
> no such file or
> > directory
> > reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
> > can't load font bitmap: arpi_osd_a.raw
> > can't load font bitmap: arpi_osd_a.raw
> > Audio extra header: len=92 fcc=0x77617665
> > win32 libquicktime loader (c) Sascha Sommer
> > Standard init done you may now call supported functions
> > loader_init DONE???
> > loader_init DONE!
> > external func COMCTL32.dll:17
> > external func COMCTL32.dll:16
> > Quicktime6 DLLs found
> > QuickTime.qts patched !!! old entry=0x6693b330
> > theQuickTimeDispatcher catched ->0x6693b330
> > Win32 warning Accessed uninitialized Critical section (0x66bc4210)!
> > Warning invalid Ptr Handle
> > Win32 warning Accessed uninitialized Critical section (0x66bc41f8)!
> >
> > I couldn't find on my system "mplayer.conf" nor "arpi_osd_a.raw". I did a
> default install of
> > mplayer, did not modify anything.
> 
> I personally debugged a problem just like this one which turned out 
> to be caused by mplayer not recognizing my Intel CPU properly.  It 
> fed the wrong CPU information to the QuickTime 6 DLLs which caused 
> them to crash just like this.
> 
> The version in the FreeBSD ports collection is 0.90rc3, and my 
> patches are in the ports tree (not part of the main mplayer code yet.)
> 
> What version are you using?
> 
> --
> Matt Emmerton